D G D - G
1. Who doesn't know what I'm talking about ?
D G D
Who's never left home, who's never struck
out,
G D
to find a dream and a life of their own,
G A
a place in the clouds, a foundation of
stone.
D G D - G
2. Many precede and many will follow,
D G D
a young girl's dream's, no longer hollow.
G D
It takes the shape of a place out West,
G A
but what it holds for her, she hasn't yet
guessed. She needs
D Em G - A D Em
G - A
Wide open spaces, room to make her big mistakes.
- D Em
G A D - Em - G - A
She needs n...ew faces, she
knows the high stakes.
D G D - G
2. She travelled this road as a child,
D G D
wide-eyed and grinning, she never tired.
G D
But now she won't be coming back with the
rest,
G A
if these are life's lessons, she'll take
this test. She needs
D Em G - A D Em
G - A
Wide open spaces, room to make her big mistakes.
- D Em
G A D
She needs n....ew faces, she
knows the high stakes.
Em G
- A
She knows the high stakes.
D G D -G
4. As her folks drive away, her dad yells,
"Check the oil!"
D G D
Mom stares out the window and says,
"I'm leaving my girl"
G D
She says, it didn't seem like that long
ago,
G A
when she stood there and let her own folks
know, she needed
D Em G - A D Em
G - A
Wide open spaces, room to make her big mistakes.
- D Em
G A D
She needs n....ew faces, she
knows the high stakes.
Em G
She knows the high stakes.
A D
- Em - G A D - Em - G
She knows the high stakes,
she knows the high stakes,
A D -
Em - G - A D - Em - G - A - D
She knows the high stakes.
(capo 2nd)
(Dixie Chicks)